Midday, Saturday the 9th … I set out on a journey to Jannali, to pick up that RSR exhaust that I won on Ebay.

40 degree heat and no aircon dont fare too well I must say, but it was all worth it when i layed my eyes on this beautiful work of japanese engineering.

Exchanged words with the PO, and went on my way back to the Liverpool region.

My main concern was that the exhaust was designed for the stock rear bumper. Considering i have a Mazdaspeed A-spec rear lip, I was pretty sure the positioning would be off … and I wasn’t wrong, But hey, I wasn’t planning to use the same setup anyway.

Anyway, lets take a look at the condition of the RSR.

As you can see, the rear of the piping has been rusting for a while

No Biggie! we are scrapping the piping anyway.

The muffler is still extremely shinny, which is great!

I took off the stock exhaust and compared it to the RSR setup.

Another thing i noticed was that the silencer was welded on to the exhaust, I was worried that it may have rusted itself in somehow.

It was difficult to remove, but it has now come out thankfully.

Heres a picture of the badging on the pipework, I will be relocating this on to the top of the muffler.

And finally, a few pictures of the exhaust mounted.

I’m not happy with how the exhaust sits, but it doesn’t matter much as Adan and I will be designing a much less restrictive exhaust.

As some may know, a rather rare piece popped on AU Ebay last week … An RSR exhaust, what makes this even more interesting is that it came off an NB.

I spotted it when the auction first began, then i forgot about it … until yesterday. I had another look, and I remember hearing the awesome sound the RSR creates on my friends NA, and I thought, that this has my name all over it!

Never, have I seen an RSR listed on Ebay Australia, so I had to bid.
There was someone else chasing down this RSR exhaust, as the bidding was going back and forth all the way till listing ended, Tonight at 7:44pm AEST, and I won by a nail-biting 58 cents.

I’ll be getting my grubby mitts on this piece in a week or two hopefully.